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1838

1838 — United States: Aroostook War

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  • No events recorded for this year
  • 1836하동고택(河東古宅) 건립
  • 1836을미의병장 담와 권세연(澹窩 權世淵) 출생
  • 1836강시환이 수렴청정을 논하여 절도에 안치됨.
  • 1837충청도 대흥군(大興郡)에서 집권자들의 죄행을 폭로하여 괘서한 성국로(成國老), 이종려(李鍾呂)가 처벌됨
  • 1839기해사옥 일어남
  • 1839대동미(大同米)를 동전으로 대납(代納)하게 함조선왕조실록CD-ROM간행위원회,
  • 1839기해교화로 천주교도 130여 명이 처형되고 프랑스 신부 3명이 군문에 효수됨.
  • 1839고산서원(古山書院) 건립
  • 1840죽산 사람 안달원(安達源)이 관아에 불만을 품고 부사(府使) 행차시 가마를 부수고 하인을 구타함
  • 1840항일자정순국 죽포 김순흠(竹圃 金舜欽) 출생
  • 1840탁지(度支)에 비축한 왜동(倭銅) 20만 근으로 동전을 주조하게 함조선왕조실록CD-ROM간행위원회,
  • No events recorded for this year
  • 1839林则徐虎门销烟。第一次鸦片战争（1840－1842）。
  • 1839June — Destruction of opium at Humen: The Qing Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of roughly a thousand tons of opium seized from EIC merchants in Humen.
  • 1840Battle of the Barrier
  • No events recorded for this year
  • 1837오시오 헤이하치로의 난
  • 1837Tokugawa Ieyoshi, accession
  • 1837Morrison incident
  • 1839蛮社の獄
  • 1839Tenpō famine
  • Aroostook War
  • Forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern U.S. leads to over 4,000 deaths in the Trail of Tears.
  • Hawn's Mill massacre
  • Cherokee removal
  • Killough massacre
  • 1836Battle of the Alamo
  • 1836Battle of San Jacinto
  • 1836Arkansas becomes a state.
  • 1836U.S. presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren elected president, no one is elected vice president.
  • 1836Samuel Colt invents the revolver.
  • 1836Battle of Coleto
  • 1836Battle of Refugio
  • 1836Battle of Agua Dulce
  • 1836Creek War of 1836
  • 1836Treaty of Washington
  • 1836Fort Parker massacre
  • 1836Original "gag rule" imposed when U.S. House of Representatives bars discussion of antislavery petitions.
  • 1836Specie Circular issued
  • 1837Michigan becomes a state
  • 1837U.S. recognizes the Republic of Texas
  • 1837Oberlin College begins enrolling female students, becoming first coeducational college in the U.S.
  • 1837Caroline affair
  • 1837Panic of 1837
  • 1837Battle of Stone Houses
  • 1837March 4, 1837 – Van Buren becomes the eighth president; Johnson becomes the ninth vice president.
  • 1837Richard M. Johnson elected vice president by the Senate.
  • 1837Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge reverses Dartmouth College v. Woodward: property rights can be overridden by public eyed.
  • 1839Anti-Rent War
  • 1839Battle of the Neches
  • 1839Amistad case
  • 18401840 United States presidential election
  • 1840Battle of Plum Creek
  • 1840Council House Fight